SELinux preventing ifconfig from reading log files, writing to sockets

Issue

• Multiple servers are getting the following entries in /var/log/messages

  Jul  1 14:30:23 example.com setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing ifconfig (ifconfig_t) "read" to /var/log/simpana/Log_Files/cvfwd.log (var_log_t). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 3cb7a52e-673c-483c-992d-240881981b6c
  Jul  1 14:30:25 example.com audisp-remote: queue is full - dropping event
  

• Our /var/log/audit/audit.log file is filling up (and getting rotated out quickly!) with the same 3 messages like the following:

  node=example.com type=AVC msg=audit(1435778063.029:1605234): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=31039 comm="ifconfig" path="/var/log/simpana/Log_Files/cvfwd.log" dev=dm-3 ino=2293801 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=file
  node=example.com type=AVC msg=audit(1435778063.029:1605234): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=31039 comm="ifconfig" path="socket:[15738]" dev=sockfs ino=15738 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:initrc_t:s0 tclass=tcp_socket
  node=example.com type=AVC msg=audit(1435778063.029:1605234): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=31039 comm="ifconfig" path="eventpoll:[15739]" dev=eventpollfs ino=15739 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:initrc_t:s0 tclass=file